Our flight from Mexico City to the coastal town of Puerto Escondido is tonight at 8:30. So we had the whole day to do a bit more exploring. Check out time was noon so we spent the morning at the hotel before we checked out and stored our bags.
This morning the Mexico City fire department had a parade. We had a great view of the parade from the window of our room.
First we went to a Diego Rivera Museum built especially to house the Rivera mural – Dream of a Sunday afternoon at Alameda Central. The mural was originally commissioned for and housed in a luxurious Mexico City Hotel. The 8.1 earthquake in September 1985 destroyed the building but the mural was not destroyed. It was relocated to its current building. There was a good English description of the mural and a key to who all the people in the mural were.
Just outside the museum there were several hundred people selling and exchanging trading cards. I saw lots of Pokémon albums.
We walked back to our hotel and walked through a few museums on the way. I think my favorite was the old post office building across from Bellas Artes.
Around 4:00 we had an early dinner at the same restaurant we had dinner at a few days ago, Cafe Tacuba. It was just as good today as it was the first time.
Then we went back to the hotel, retrieved our bags, and took an Uber to the airport.
At the airport the woman at security decided that my circular knitting needles and small tube of lotion (123 gms) were a threat! So we had to go back out and check my bag for a $50 fee. I was not happy.
We have had a wonderful time in Mexico City but I am ready for a rest! And it will be nice to have clean air again. We only had a couple of days of our time in Mexico City that didn’t have bad air quality. It will be in the 80s in Puerto Escondido which will be nice too.
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